Legionella risk assessments are a legal requirement
The Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 1, states it is a legal requirement to ensure that those in control of premises, and those with health and safety responsibilities for others, comply with their duties in relation to legionella.
We help you meet the required legal duties by which include:
- Identifying and assessing sources of risk
- Preparing a scheme to prevent or control risk
- Implementing, managing and monitoring precautions
- Keeping records of precautions
- Appointing a manager to be responsible for others
For further information or to ask any questions you have about compliance, please contact us.
Arrange a Legionella Risk Assessment with us
To arrange a Legionella Risk Assessment with one of our qualified engineers. Please fill out the form below.
We’re here to ensure you and your premises safe are safe and compliant
Testing to Prevent Legionella
Regular testing of the water systems in your building to ensure your water system is free from legionella is important. We offer testing of appliances in your water supply and sampling, carried out by our qualified engineers.
Your HSE risk assessment is required for acop 18 compliance. The results of your legionella testing and sampling must be recorded and kept for 5 years.
What happens if Legionella bacteria is found
If following assessment it is found that legionella bacteria is present, we will offer you our water treatment service.
Our water treatment for legionella bacteria will address the issue. Then following our treatment we re-assess the water to ensure you are compliant with your legal responsibilities and industry standards.
Reducing risk saves cost long term
The objective of our legionella assessment and water treatment service is to reduce risk. We work closely with you to help you understand the risks and provide the required preventative action that reduces or eliminates the risk completely.
Compliance and prevention helps protect you against any possible substantial penalties that will be imposed if you are found to be negligent after the fact.
Compliance and prevention helps protect you against any possible substantial penalties
Assessments to the standards set out by BS 8580, HSE ACoP L8, HSG 274 and HTM 04-01.
We will help you establish a Legionella management system to help ensure compliance.
Remedial Work
Remedial plumbing work and can resolve many problems that may have been flagged within your legionella risk assessment. We will review your legionella risk assessment with you and highlight your requirements to achieve compliance. Once the work has been identified we will agree a schedule to address each task accordingly. Our engineers carry out a broad range of remedial plumbing work that will address almost any aspect raised by your risk assessment.
- TMV servicing & replacement
- Cold water tank cleaning
- Tank bypassing
- Tank capacity reducing
- Domestic and commercial water softener
- Dead leg/end removals
- Pipework insulation and lagging
- Edge protection
- RPZ valve testing & replacement
- Shower head descaling & replacement
Planned Preventative Maintenance
Keeping on top water hygiene require continuous assessment, remedial work, monitoring and review.
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Planned Preventative Maintenance
Water Temperature Monitoring
Maintaining safe hot & cold water temperature
HSE Legionella, ACoP L8, HSG274 part 2 states guidance that cold water must be kept below 20ºC, and that hot water should reach the tap at 50ºC, but be produced and stored in the chlorifier at 60ºC.
For compliance it’s important to provide evidence that hot and cold water systems are storing water at the required temperatures. We will help you establish regular motoring at required intervals.
Automated sensors can be installed to your hot and cold pipework to monitor the temperature of the pipe at pre-determined frequencies reporting back in real time to our cloud based system.
- Control of legionella bacteria in water systems
- Part of HSE Legionella, ACoP L8 Compliance
- Manual monitoring via sentinel outlets
- Automatic water temperature monitoring using the latest sensor technology
Water Cleaning & Disinfection
Most water systems will require cleaning and disinfection during the course their operational life. Cold-water storage tanks, calorifiers and system pipework in particular will require cleaning to prevent the build up of bacteria over time. We can provide visual inspection of cold water tanks or take bacterial samples – and if disinfection is required we will undertake the work in accordance with the required regulation (currently ACoP L8 and PD855468:2015).
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WaterCare Services Ltd. Company number: 14476620
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